Supporting Chemnitzer Linux Days

Countersigned premium sponsors

Heinlein Support GmbH,
based in Berlin, offers over 20 years of knowledge and experience in
Linux servers and e-mail services. Our customers can benefit from the
knowledge we impart during our Linux training courses at the Heinlein
Academy or during in-house training sessions. They can also take
advantage of our experience in personal consulting services, our
attention to detail when hosting customer data on our Linux servers,
and our understanding of the Linux operating system when using our
appliance and software products. In addition, Heinlein hosts the
Mailserver Conference and the Secure Linux Administration
Conference. We have worked with thousands of customers from reputable
consumer goods companies, service and industry branches, as well as
the public sector place for years and they continue to place their
trust in us.

The Open Source Business Alliance - abbreviated OSB Alliance - counts over 230 members and is
one of Europe's largest network of businesses and organizations that develop, are based on, or
implement open source software.
The goal of the Alliance OSB is to make open source software and other forms of open cooperation
more successful. The OSB Alliance achieves its goal by disseminating information, creating
favorable conditions for manufacturers and users, as well as by the actively networking
manufacturers, customers and service providers. Especially interoperability between different open
source systems and with proprietary software plays an important role.

Hetzner Online is a professional web hosting provider and experienced data center operator. Since 1997 the company has provided private and business clients with high-performance hosting products as well as the necessary infrastructure for efficient operation of websites. A combination of stable technology, attractive pricing and flexible support and services has enabled Hetzner Online to continuously strengthen its market position both nationally and internationally.
Hetzner Online stands for high-quality and fast hardware in conjunction with an outstanding price-performance ratio with the support of a competent, in-house service team. Qualified experts in the data center are accessible 24/7 for emergencies.
Numerous top ratings in well-known IT journals attest to the special benefits of Hetzner Online.

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale as a business grows. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.

The AWS platform has grown rapidly since the launch of the first service and it is now the underlying infrastructure for businesses around the world from start-ups to enterprises to government agencies. AWS has hundreds of thousands of customers in over 190 countries leveraging the services from infrastructure locations in the U.S., Europe, South America, Singapore, and Japan.

Companies around the world using AWS range from smaller, fast-growing companies such as Playfish, Airbnb and Pinterest to larger companies such as Shell Oil, NASA and News Internati

Emenda® specialises in the provision of software testing tools and consultancy services for the development and verification of high integrity software systems, to customers worldwide.
Emenda® is in an unparalleled position to help to protect your organistion against the perils of software development such as:

B1 Systems GmbH is specialized in consulting and project work around
Open Source and employs more than 50 consultants in this field. We act
internationally in the topics of virtualization, clustering and
performance optimization. We hand the knowledge we gain in those
projects and feasibility studies on in trainings, workshops, books and
presentations.

Since its foundation in 2002 LSE gained an excelent reputation in
the German IT Security branch.
Several DAX companies, research facilities, universities and
government agencies are amongst LSE's satified customers.
After its new focusing in 2011 LSE is the leading provider for
connection technologies of vendor independent authentication
security and identity management.

Its main product LSE LinOTP is a flexible and cutting edge OTP
solution for stron two factor authentication. Due to the highly
modular architecture LinOTP is vendor independent and supports
several authentication protocols, tokens and databases. LinOTP is
multi client capable, scalable and user friendly and can be
implemented quickly and easily. Using LinOTP customers can fullfill
highest security requirements without effort.

chemmedia AG offers solutions for knowledge workers in global knowledge transfer projects. Over 370 customers in 38 countries and more than 2,000,000 learners already trust our solutions. With Open KnowledgeWorker we now provide these proven technologies as cloud solution for the free exchange of e-learning modules. Now, everybody can be an author. You can easily create e-learning modules and provide them under Creative Commons. Furthermore, you may use modules and media of other users for your own e-learning courses (also for mobile devices) for free.

The c.a.p.e. IT® GmbH is specialized in IT infrastructure and service
management products. The company from Chemnitz, Germany, is an important
service provider of Open Source Software for small and middle sized
business (SMB) and public institutions.

c.a.p.e. IT is specifically specialized in solutions related to
OTRS-based service management systems. That is the reason for
self-development of module KIX4OTRS, which makes customer and citizen
communication easier, faster and more cost-efficient. The knowledge
needed for the project work comes from experience collected in projects
for SMB, big organisations and public institutions.

The company's partners are among all IBM, Tarent, CFI Slovakia,
Univention, uib and Zarafa.

Media partners

Since June 2000, LinuxUser magazine every month provides hands-on tutorials as well as in-depth software and hardware reviews focusing the daily work on the Linux desktop. News and reports illustrate the latest trends in the Linux and Open Source communities. Each 108-page issue includes two DVD-9 with the newest desktop software and distributions from around the world. Many articles from LinuxUser are published in translated form in Linux Magazine (UK, ES) and Linux Pro Magazine (US).

Radio UNiCC the Campusradio is broadcasting the lectures of Chemnitzer Linuxtage.

Community media partners

Pro Linux is one of the largest German sites for Linux and free and Open Source Software. It is the meeting point of all Linux users from beginners to experts. It publishes the latest daily news and the best tips about Linux and free software. Articles, tutorials, workshops, and reviews appear on a regular basis. Other services for the community include one of the largest directories of free and Open Source programs, large link collections, a bulletin board, tips, security advisories of the distributions, and information about user groups.

Further countersigned sponsors

The Fedora Project is a community supported open source project. Its goal is the rapid progress of free and open source software and content. The Fedora Project makes use of public forums, open processes, rapid innovation, meritocracy, and transparency in pursuit of the best operating system and platform that free and open source software can provide. The mindset is Doing the Right Thing. To us, that means providing Free and open source software, at no cost, freely usable, modifiable, redistributable, and unencumbered by software patents.
Fedora is an operating system and a development platform based on Linux that is

free to use.

free to modify.

free & legal to redistribute.

free from potentially damaging software patents encumbrance

Fedora is built from the latest technologies from Free / Open Source world and developed by a community of users and developers who are passionate to provide and maintain the best software in Free and Open formats.

The German Unix User Group is a non-profit organization for professional
system and network administrators, security experts and system programmers which prefer to
use a Unix operating system. Since more than 20 years GUUG organizes national and international
conferences, like Linux-Kongress and "Frühjahrsfachgespräch" which takes place in Frankfurt/Main between
the 26th of February and 1nd of March, 2013.
For more information see www.guug.de

Metaways Infosystems GmbH
started with classical IT consultancy around its core business of
Hosting. Today Metaways provides reputable clients of various
business sectors with the entire services portfolio for internet and
Open Source. This
includes the planning and implementation of customer-fit solution
concepts as well as their operation. Internal Open Source products,
application developments and Content Management enhance the portfolio
of the Hamburg IT service provider.
further information: www.metaways.de

The company Gerrit Beine GmbH is specialized in software architecture
and agile software development methods. Its founder Gerrit Beine looks
back at a number of years of experience in the area of software
architecture and the establishment of agile methods which he provides
amongst others for customers in the automotive sector whenever there
is a need for planing, execution and validation of strategic software
projects whereas agile procedures as well as the adoption of Open
Source Software for development and in particular for quality
management are preferred. For several years, Gerrit Beine supports
FreeBSD as Port Maintainer as well as other Open Source projects - and
of course the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage.

MEGWARE is developer and vendor of high-performance computing systems and Linux cluster as well as provider of IT equipment for industry and public authorities. There are Linux cluster of MEGWARE in institutions, universities and in companies between Valencia and Bern as well as in Nicosia, Rome, Zurich and Abu Dhabi and of course in Germany.

Univention GmbH offers a range of Linux-based products and services. Our core
competencies are integration of Linux and Windows (on the server and on the
client side), directory services, Linux on the desktop, and thin-client
technology.
Our product, Univention Corporate Server, enables companies and public
organizations to deploy, maintain and administer Linux-based server- and
client-solutions within short time and with relatively small financial
effort.
Customers using our services profit from our leading edge knowledge in the
areas Debian GNU/Linux, Directory Services, Samba, Thin-Client-Computing, and
Windows-Linux-Integration. We are the first company which has done a seamless
and complete migration from Windows NT 4.0 to Linux, Samba 3.0 and OpenLDAP
in a German federal agency.

The LPI e.V. supports the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), a global
non-profit organization incorporated in Canada, with the development of
independent, globally-recognized professional standards for Linux and Free
Software. The acceptance of LPI certification programs and LPI-certified
professional is growing through our public relations, education programs and
consulting.

Nowadays, e-mail is one of the mission critical applications of a company. Zarafa combines the usabillity of Outlook with the stability and flexibility of a Linux server. Not only Outlook is supported natively, but users can use also the web 2.0 Outlook "Look & Feel" webaccess and all ActiveSync compatible mobile devices as well as Blackberry.

Open Source Press is a computing-focused publishing house based in
Munich, Germany. Founded in 2003, they specialise in issues and
developments related to open-source software and philosophy.

Since it was established in 1998, matrica
has specialised in the development and distribution of software for the Banking & Brokerage sector.
With its product moneyplex, matrica is considered a market leader in the HBCI sector employing the
operating system Linux. Further, during the last few years, moneyplex has successfully established
itself in the Windows and Mac OSX segment, and acquired numerous banks and financial institutes as business partners.

KaMUX GmbH & Co. KG is a management consulting company focussed on small
and medium enterprises. Our main subject is our customers organization.
We do improve our clients abilities using free and opensource software
whenever possible.